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are we going to have to throw out 240 million PCS next year when Windows 10

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reaches end of life according to one It analytics firm that's how many computers

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are ineligible for a Windows 11 upgrade meaning they won't be getting security

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updates after October 2025 and while it's possible to pay Microsoft for

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extended security updates Slovenian company Acro security thinks it has a

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better and cheaper solution they call it zero patch and it's supposed to keep

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Windows 10 safe to use for at least 5 years Beyond October 2025 but how is it

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different from Microsoft's official Solutions what are strengths and weaknesses and how the heck does an

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outside company even figure out how to patch Windows security holes I mean it's

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not like Microsoft just leaves Windows source code laying around for anyone to

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look at before we go on I just want to say we're not affiliated or paid by

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acros in any way this is just cool information it turns out that not having

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the source code isn't a big deal for software Engineers who are good at

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reverse engineering once a vulnerability in Windows has been identified and

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Engineers can reproduce it they can track exactly how that data flows

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between different processes running on the PC and they can examine the code

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that's being executed using software tools after this tracking and inspection

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step the team then attempts to modify the original Windows code more on that

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shortly to plug the security hole although new vulnerabilities are found

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regularly with Windows many of them fall into known categories allowing zero

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patch to get fixes out the door in relatively short order but there's

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something about these fixes that is very interesting compared to official Windows

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patches and we'll tell you what that is right after we thank private internet

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access their VPN network expands across six continents and 91 countries that's

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all the good ones letting you access your local catalog of content from all

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over the globe VPN are like a little invisible tunnel for your online life no

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one especially your internet service provider or nosy third parties gets to

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see what you're up to your privacy belongs to you plus with just one

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subscription you can connect an unlimited number of devices to Pia

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really unlimited gz go check out Pia using our Link in the description for a

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special deal with a risk-free 30-day money back guarantee so what clever way

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has zero patch device to keep Windows updated instead of altering the original

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Windows system files that live on a drive zero patch instead Alters

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processes running in RAM across says

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this has a big Advantage if a patch that affects a running process for example a

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spreadsheet program is released the patch gets applied without the user

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having to reboot the PC or close the spreadsheet they're working on instead

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zero patch briefly stops the process and Alters a few bytes in memory which only

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takes a fraction of a second additionally attempting to alter Windows

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files would make the operating system think that there's a security issue and

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it wouldn't exactly be convenient to have your computer constantly think it

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has some kind of malware infection ironically caused by security patches so

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avoiding this approach altogether minimizes the chances that Windows would

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somehow how block the security fix is and if for some reason a patch messes

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something up or otherwise it needs to be unapplied de applied this can be very

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easily done simply by disabling zero patch which instantly removes any

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changes from memory without having to go through the process of deinstalling and

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update uninstalling but beyond these

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usability advantages across says zero patch is superior for certain

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vulnerabilities that Microsoft hasn't even addressed yet that is zero day

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attacks including for example security holes in authentication for large

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networks which Microsoft actually just stopped issuing patches for the point

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here is that not only is zero patch a solution to keep Windows 10 safe to use

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but the approach is also supposed to help with existing problems Microsoft

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either can't or won't fix indeed across

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has said that trying to fix the source code is much more timec consuming than

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zero patches handle it in RAM approach meaning they're actually supposed to

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push out patches faster than you'd used to be getting from Windows update

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butless we sound like we're Shilling for them again this was not a p video we

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have no affiliation with acros let's now talk about a key limitation to their

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solution unlike official Microsoft fixes zero patch can't touch problems in the

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kernel basically the underlying code of the operating system instead it'll patch

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issues in user space essentially the programs you can see running in task

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manager but the good news is that most

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critical issues that attackers could exploit are in user space so acros is

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pretty confident that zero patch will prevent Windows 10 from becoming

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unacceptably risky to use as the years go by still it's important to note that

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zero patch tends to focus on specific attack vectors meaning that despite its

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advantages it may not protect against the same range of attacks that the

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official Microsoft updates would if you want to give zero patch a try Acro told

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us that they're looking at extending support Beyond 5 years if demand is

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there but again the service is not free though it is nice for Microsoft to have

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a little competition are you planning to make your Windows 10 system last for as

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long as it can let us know down in the comments and if you'd like to learn a

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bit of history about how Windows XP lasted as long as it did go watch this

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